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[Ragnarok]

I like your ideas for punishment for using the talisman. I will write up in more detail something along those lines to put into effect for this game.

Originally posted by tesco samoa:

what happens if I close one off... And then open another one and it turns out i cannot open a warp point to that system.

So I try another one the turn after and it opens

Should there be punishment for that ?

I don't feel there should be. As long as you are honestly trying to open up a warp point to another system that very turn. Now if you go 3, 4, or 5 turns in a row and still haven't opened one then there should be a penalty to pay I think.

[Spoo]

Are there any restrictions on using retrofit-series to quickly construct sphereworlds?

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by Spoo:
Are there any restrictions on using retrofit-series to quickly construct sphereworlds?

If you want to spend the cash to do so then feel free. But since we have some realitive new ones in this game I think it would only be fair if we told them the process and exactly what retroseries is. I am not an expert at it so I will allow someone else who is better qualified to explain it. If there are players who do not know how to do this and no one is willing to explain it then I will have discourage the use of retroseries; but I doubt we will have a problem with that.

[Spoo]

I've never tried it, but figured this game might be a good place to give it a shot.

The basic idea is that to retrofit a ship to a new design, the new design can only cost so much more than the original (I think it's 125%). However, you can give a ship unlimited retrofit orders in a turn.

So you build the cheapest starbase that you can. Then retrofit to a design that costs 125% more, then on the same turn, you retrofit it to another design that costs 125% more than the first retrofit, etc. Viola, you have the starbases to build your sphereworld in a fraction of the time it takes to build them straight. The downside? It costs a ridiculous amount of resources to do this, since you're paying for each retrofit.

[ February 11, 2004, 19:34: Message edited by: Spoo ]

[Fyron]

Max cost difference for retrofits is 150%, not 125%. Also, it is a difference in the total resource cost, not each resource individually.

In simultaneous movement games, a retrofit order deletes all previous orders that a ship had. So, you can only do one step in the retroseries per turn.

[ February 11, 2004, 19:37: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]

[tesco samoa]

Last game i built a ton of space ships to do it for each star...

[Ragnarok]

Originally posted by tesco samoa:
Last game i built a ton of space ships to do it for each star...

That is how I did it. I had 50+ ships at any given time building bases.